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Spokane staff propose MFTE change to bar short-term rentals in new tax-exempt buildings
Summary
City planning staff brought a code amendment to bar short-term (transient) lodging in buildings receiving multifamily tax exemptions going forward; the change would not apply to projects with existing contracts. Council members questioned trade-offs between enforcement simplicity and potential impacts on development feasibility.
Amanda Beck, planning services, briefed the Urban Experience Committee on a proposed amendment to Spokane’s multifamily tax exemption (MFTE) code that would explicitly prohibit short-term (transient) lodging in projects receiving an MFTE going forward.
The change would require new MFTE projects to provide “permanent residential occupancy,” the staff memo said, and would not retroactively alter currently approved MFTE contracts. Beck said the city already asks annually whether MFTE buildings operate…
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